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The tapering pyramid--whose spiky top has wounded the thick cloud. - Hugh Blair Thy best type, desire of the sad heart,--the heaven-ascending spire. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Rushing from the woods, the spires Seem from hence ascending fires! - Sir Edward Dyer Where'er a spire points up to heaven, Through storm and summer air, Telling that all around have striven, Man's heart, and hope, and prayer. - Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise? - Alexander Pope These pointed spires, that wound the ambient sky. - Matthew Prior View not this spire by measure given, To buildings raised by common hands; That fabric rises high as heaven, Whose basis on devotion stands. - Matthew Prior The village church, among the trees, Where first our marriage-vows were given, With merry peals shall swell the breeze, And point with taper spire to heaven. - Samuel Rogers Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds. - William Shakespeare Magnific walls, and heaven-assaulting spires. - Christopher Smart Nought but the heaven-directed spire. - William Wordsworth Ye swelling hills and spacious plains! Besprent from shore to shore with steeple towers, And spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." - William Wordsworth How the tall temples, as to meet their gods, Ascend the skies! - Edward Young
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